Source:Minerals looted, communities left in ruin-Newsday Zimbabwe He is right. The real tragedy is that Zimbabwe is one of the worst culprits with the rot starting with the ruling party, Zanu PF, itself. Zimbabwe is a country bursting with mineral wealth, yet its communities remain trapped in poverty and neglect.
After years of diamond mining, there is no evidence of prosperity for locals. No new schools, no modern clinics, no improved livelihoods, no jobs. Only hunger, unemployment, decay, dust, crumbling infrastructure and shattered expectations.
Penhalonga tells the same story — tunnels crisscrossing under people’s homes, turning the environment into a death trap. Kwekwe is worse: the land has been hollowed out so badly that one day, the central business district will simply cave in Boterekwa in Shurugwi is crying out for rescue; those once beautiful mountains have been excavated and what is left is a scarred landscape. For decades, Zimbabwe’s minerals have been siphoned off through opaque deals, shell companies and politically- connected cartels. Diamonds, gold, chrome all have enriched the elite and their foreign partners, leaving local communities in abject poverty, amid scarred land, dust-filled lungs, collapsing houses and poisoned rivers.
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